Ligation/biopsy of temporal artery 37609 at AHN WEXFORD HOSPITAL
12351 PERRY HIGHWAY, WEXFORD, PA · Ahn · · NPI 1588269898
$147.42
Cash price Discounted cash price What a hospital charges a self-pay patient who pays directly, without going through insurance — usually well below the gross charge. Example: A CT scan has a $3,200 gross charge but an $850 discounted cash price. Ask for it by name when scheduling — hospitals don't always advertise it up front.
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What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$567.00
Gross charge Gross charge (chargemaster price) The hospital's full, undiscounted list price — pulled from its internal "chargemaster" price list. Almost no one actually pays this. Example: A chest X-ray has a gross charge of $1,450. The same hospital's discounted cash price for the same X-ray is $180 — the gross charge mostly anchors negotiations, not what patients pay.
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The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$130.20 with Amerihealth vs $5,171.86 with Medical Mutual — same scan, same building. Share
Negotiated rates by payer
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Negotiated rate
The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.
Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.
Full explanation →
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Negotiated rate
The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.
Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.
Full explanation →Payer ?Payer The insurance company footing the bill — Aetna, UnitedHealthcare, Medicare, and so on. Example: "Blue Cross Blue Shield" is the payer. Its negotiated rate for an MRI might be $904, while a different payer's negotiated rate for the same scan is $1,509. Full explanation → |
Plan ?Plan The specific product an insurer sells — e.g. "Blue Cross PPO 500" — which sets your deductible, coinsurance and negotiated rates. Example: Two people both insured by Aetna can owe very different amounts for the same MRI: $50 with an HMO plan's flat copay, or the full $1,200 toward a high-deductible PPO plan's unmet deductible. Full explanation → |
Negotiated rate | vs. cash |
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| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas D-SNP Medicare | $130.20 | ↓ -12% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas Medicare (NY) | $130.20 | ↓ -12% |
| Pennsylvania Health and Wellness | PA Health and Wellness Medicaid CHC | $163.68 | ↑ +11% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare | $175.67 | ↑ +19% |
| Geisinger | Geisinger Medicaid HC | $179.80 | ↑ +22% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas CHC Medicaid | $179.80 | ↑ +22% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas HC Medicaid | $179.80 | ↑ +22% |
| Geisinger | Geisinger CHIP | $179.80 | ↑ +22% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicaid | $179.80 | ↑ +22% |
| Life Pittsburgh | Life Pittsburgh Medicare | $188.89 | ↑ +28% |
| Highmark | Highmark Security Blue | $194.56 | ↑ +32% |
| Devoted Medicare | Devoted Duel Plus PA HMO D-SNP | $200.22 | ↑ +36% |
| Devoted Medicare | Devoted Health Medicare Advantage | $200.22 | ↑ +36% |
| American Health Plans | American Health Plans Medicare | $207.78 | ↑ +41% |
| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue | $231.21 | ↑ +57% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Managed Care | $244.57 | ↑ +66% |
| Highmark | Highmark Blue High Performance | $244.57 | ↑ +66% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue | $244.57 | ↑ +66% |
| Highmark | Highmark Connect Blue | $244.57 | ↑ +66% |
| Highmark | Highmark Indemnity | $244.57 | ↑ +66% |
| Highmark | Highmark Managed Care | $244.57 | ↑ +66% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Blue Access | $244.57 | ↑ +66% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Direct Blue | $244.57 | ↑ +66% |
| Highmark | Highmark Performance Blue | $244.57 | ↑ +66% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Indemnity | $244.57 | ↑ +66% |
| Cigna | Cigna Commercial | $323.09 | ↑ +119% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Navigate Nexus Commercial | $376.02 | ↑ +155% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Of OH Medicaid | $396.43 | ↑ +169% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Commercial | $396.43 | ↑ +169% |
| Highmark Wholecare | Highmark Wholecare Medicaid HC | $563.04 | ↑ +282% |
| Pennsylvania Health and Wellness | Pennsylvania Health and Wellness Medicaid CHC | $612.00 | ↑ +315% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare CHIP | $652.80 | ↑ +343% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Medicaid HC | $673.20 | ↑ +357% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Medicaid CHC | $673.20 | ↑ +357% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare PPO | $1,434.01 | ↑ +873% |
| Highmark | Highmark Complete Blue Medicare | $1,434.01 | ↑ +873% |
| Highmark | Highmark Freedom Blue | $1,449.59 | ↑ +883% |
| Martin's Point | Martin's Point | $1,558.70 | ↑ +957% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare | $1,621.05 | ↑ +1000% |
| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue Medicare | $1,621.05 | ↑ +1000% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare HMO | $1,621.05 | ↑ +1000% |
| Aetna | Aetna Medicare | $1,621.05 | ↑ +1000% |
| Humana | Humana Commercial | $1,652.23 | ↑ +1021% |
| Highmark Wholecare | Highmark Wholecare Medicare Assured | $1,652.23 | ↑ +1021% |
| Cigna | Cigna Medicare | $1,667.81 | ↑ +1031% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare I-SNP | $1,667.81 | ↑ +1031% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare D-SNP | $1,683.40 | ↑ +1042% |
| Molina | Molina Ohio | $1,698.99 | ↑ +1052% |
| Highmark | Highmark Performance Blue Enhanced | $2,542.56 | ↑ +1625% |
| Aetna | Aetna Commercial | $4,738.46 | ↑ +3114% |
| Medical Mutual | Medical Mutual Commercial (Cigna Network) | $5,171.86 | ↑ +3408% |
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Ligation/biopsy of temporal artery 37609 at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $4,489.80 | $157.48 – $6,360.55 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $405.60 | $81.22 – $1,041.88 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $4,489.80 | $157.48 – $6,360.55 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $4,489.80 | $157.48 – $2,476.51 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $4,489.80 | $157.48 – $2,489.89 |
| UPMC Memorial | York | $4,489.80 | $157.48 – $2,485.84 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $4,489.80 | $136.40 – $1,544.70 |
| Uniontown Hospital | Uniontown | $943.50 | $1,600.82 – $3,729.91 |